speaking of death...

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Event…

I don't want any resources wasted on me/my body after I die. I won't be around to give a damn. Throw my dead body in a landfill for all I care.

I keep reading "fitting comic tribute" in that second paragraph.

Hi Charles. Please, please don't write "the" Puget Sound. It grates on the ears of us old-timers like saying "The Manhattan" would (unless of course you speak of the cocktail). You are allowed to write "The Puget Sound area" however.

Maybe the Swedes just really like Terminator 2.

@4, done. done. done.

I have a better idea. Instead of wasting resources building this monstrosity, just chuck everyone's ashes directly into the sound.

Man! That is AWESOME, I always wanted to be shattered to death or liquefied by my favorite song, Now I can be shattered if I die of cancer or some bullshit.

I hope nobody ever builds that platform thingy, SO TACKY. If you want to reinvent funerals, try a less mini-mall approach.

Building & maintaining a boat to merely keep ashes sounds like a colossal waste of time & money. Surely the shatter method is the way to go for PNW people. Or leave my freshly dead body on the Olympic Peninsula to feed the bears. The new polar-grizzly hybrids. (Ok, ok, in the North Cascades or Upper Canada.)

The dead don't give a rat's patootie about being "on a floating columbarium with a view of the lights (and life) of downtown Seattle" - they're dead.

Now, the living who put their deceased's ashes on a floating columbarium might enjoy it, but my guess is the weekend sailors on Elliott Bay wouldn't much like getting smacked in the face with some dead person's carbonized remains every time they turned tack.

@7 - Don't stop there CREMATE THE WHOLE PUGET SOUND (Area)

I will once again float (heh) the suggestion of alkaline digestion.

Good Morning Charles,
A fascinating approach by the Swedes though I'm not sure I'd want it. I like this alternative:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…

The Swedish option was mentioned in Mary Roach's book, "Stiff" (which is a really fun read). One of the reasons why it is so environmentally friendly is because it uses a small percentage of the energy to destroy the body that a crematorium uses. Plus the process does not destroy DNA so you can bury the remains and incorporate your loved one's DNA in a garden so that it becomes part of a tree, etc.

Thank gawd religion and their rules are becoming obsolete where a lot of the ideas about funerals come from. Open casket funerals are creepy IMO. I have never understood them, but it was part of a Catholic rule not to destroy the body. Huh? Bury me au natural please! Hell, let the coyotes eat me...I don't give a rip.

@14 - but what if the result is something like in Splice and we get a race of Ent monsters?

The freezing and shattering idea would make for some very interesting pinata-themed funerals. The family could stuff the body full of frozen treats.

@16 Or work off unresloved anger issues with the departed.

Please, when I am dead, feed me to something. All this meat can't just go to waste.

Well, I suppose the one advantage of it is that we wouldn't be wasting as much land with our rotting corpses but it seems like a huge waste of resources.

For the freeze and smash method I wonder what they do with the gooey paste that's left over after the smashed bits defrost.

Wouldn't the shattered body thaw into a puddle of slop really quickly? A BIG puddle of slop? What happens to the slop?